https://github.com/glouw/openempires

C
The Age of Empires II rewrite

Open Empires

This is a custom game engine for Age of Empires II written in less than 15,000 lines of C99 using only SDL2.

Open Empires is multiplayer only, and borrows elements from StarCraft II and Age of Empires III.

Legal

Open Empires is NOT a binary decompilation of Age of Empires II, and its expansion, The Conquerors. The source has been written by hand to best emulate the mechanics of Age of Empires II and its expansion, The Conquerors.

Data, art, and sound files from Age of Empires II or its expansion, The Conquerors, are not supplied - to play Open Empires you must own the original boxed-set version of Age of Empires II and The Conquerors, preferably the Gold Edition.

Dependencies

Arch   : pacman -S sdl2 sdl2_net sdl2_ttf
Ubuntu : apt-get install libsdl2-dev libsdl2-net-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev

Building

git clone https://github.com/glouw/openempires
cd openempires
make -C src

Running

First, start the server:

./openempires --server

Connections only to localhost are currently supported.

Second, start the client by specifying your window resolution and installation data folder path:

./openempires --xres 1440 --yres 900 --path "/path/to/data/folder"

Development blog (on hiatus)

http://glouw.com/2019/04/10/Reverse-Engineering-Age-of-Empires-2-Part-0.html

Credits

Thanks to:

• SFTech OpenAge team for their fantastic reverse engineering documentation (https://github.com/SFTtech/openage)
• Ensemble Studios for many gifted childhood memories
• Forgotten Empires for keeping the spirit of Age of Empires II alive

Dedicated to Ondrej whom I met hiking across England as he hiked from Scotland to Spain.

For the Josh Master. Volare, my friend, wherever you are.